Friday, December 28, 2012

( Here is a prayer from the atharvana Veda addressed to Varahi, the very fierce Goddess Varahi. It would be useful for people wanting to bring another person under his control. It was sent to me by my friend Mr.Justin Reynolds.)

That man who reads this prayer of attraction addressed to the Godess, in dawn, noon and dusk,
Would fulfill his desires, and at proper time would become the master of the country as well as a pretty
Lady.

Ithi Adharva shikaayam vasya varahi stotram sampoornam

Thus ends the prayer of attraction to varahi occurring in the Atharva Shikha.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

(Poonthanam was
born in the year 1547 in a village
called Kezhatur near Angadipuram town in the Malappuram, district of Kerala. He was a great devotee
of Guruvaurappan and is the
celebrated author of a book called
Jnanapana (see my translation in http://stotraratna.sathyasaibababrotherhood.org/o3.htm

He lived up to
the ripe old age of 93. Once when the
old Poonthanam was insulted by the
workers of the temple in Guruvayur, it seems
Guruvayrappan told him that he
himself would come to the place of
Poonthanam and live there.The lord is
supposed to be in the temple of Lord Krishna called “idathupuram “ meaning “left side “and in
Sanskrit “Vamapuram” . Possibly
attracted by the very famous
Sanskrit work called Sri Krishna
Karnamrutham of Leela Sukha , Poonthanam might have decided to call it “Bhasha Karnamrutham” . In the 167th stanza
of this great work he says

“By your well decorated
and coloured form , you made the entire earth get attracted
to you,

Oh God , Oh God, the world is also surrounded by desire and great anger ,

And if my “Bhasha Karnamrutham” is always
enjoyed by the toungue

Then like olden times no one need not creep under the load of the tendrils
of Karma forever.”

Unlike the work of Sri Krishna Karnamrutham which
are poems drenched with devotion
addressed to Lord Krishna , this
BHasha Karnamrutham relates the story
of Lord Krishna from his birth to the famous incident of Lord Krishna helping
Arjuna to get back the dead son of a Brahmin. (Mostly from Dasama Skanda
of Bhagwatham.Possibly he got this idea
from the famous Narayaneeyam relating the story of Lord Vishnu.) These are narrated in the first
113 stanzas. The portion from 114th to the 169th stanza emphasizes the need for chanting the
name “Narayana” and also relates the philosophy of Poonthanam.

Poonthanam
states in the work that his Guru was one Neelakanda and that this
was edited and corrected by one Sri Soolapani.

By the blessings
of the dust of the feet of Neelakanda(Author’s Guru) ,

I went on narrating
the plays of Lord Krishna
somehow,

Oh Mukunda , Victory to Lord of Vamapura ,

Please grant me
devotion to your divine
feet. (117)

Soolapani put in
lot of efforts,

To systematized
and edited it ,

Put in lot of
efforts to make it great ,

My “honey to the ears “ written in local language ,

And please become
happy at the feet of Achyutha.(118)

Poonthanam also
states that this work has
been written when he was nearing the age on ninty.

Oh sea of mercy , I
was for a long time longing,

To see the toys
with which Lord Krishna played,

Counting and counting
the singing of your names,

Ninety years have almost passed by. (148)

To the best
of my knowledge no effort
has been made to translate this great work of devotion to Lord Krishna in to English.Because of that even very great devotees of Krishna and organizations like ISKON do not anything about this great book. , There is no
discussion about this book in the web
also. I think my elementary effort would
bring it to the attention of great
Krishna Bhakthas outside Kerala,.

I would
like to dedicate this translation
to sri P.V.V.Raghavan
(Puducode Venkateswaran
Veeraraghavan) who happens to be my co brother .Sri Veeraraghavan (Popularly known as
Veeramani of Thekke Gramam of Puthucode)
is above 90 and lives
in Mumbai with his sons. He goes
in to raptures even today while
singing prayer songs written in
Malayalam. He remembers by rote most of these songs and it is from him that I developed
interest in Malayalam prayer
songs addressed to Lord Guruvayurappan.)

1.Karnamrutham
Vamapuradhi vasin,

Ninnal matham
kinchana bhashayai jnan,

Yennal varum
vannam udhara keerthe,

Chonnal athum
preenanai varum

Oh lord of
Vamapura, this nectar to your
ears,

Has been composed by me according to your wish,

To the best of my
ability, Oh Lord with great fame.

And it should make
you happy if recited.

2.AAkkam pondu Ashtami Rohini oruma kalarnnoru naal ardha
Rathrou,

Chol kollum Chinga mase muzhu mathiyum udhikkunna mukhye
muhurthe,

Trikkayyil Shanku
chakrambuuja Gadakal darichoru Bala
Swaroopam,

Thakkathil devakikkum
kanavanum anaye darsitham kai thozhunnen.

On a holy day when Ashtami and Rohini were mixed
, at mid night,

In the very good
month of Chingam , in the time when the moon rises to the full,

A form of a baby
holding in his hands conch, wheel,
lotus flower and mace ,

Was made to be
seen by Devaki as well as her husband, My salutations.

3.Achande hastha padmathinnu Madhu karamai niinu povaan mudhirnnu,

THalkkale mushku thedeedinna , kanaka kavadangal thane thurannu,

Chakreesan
chathram aarnnu nira puzhayum uzathode neer vaangi ninnu,

Chikkennu ambadi chernnu, janakanavide akkanyaye kondu ponnu.

He immediately started
to stand from there like a bee in the lotus hands of his father ,

And immediately those proud golden doors which were
imprisoning them opened by
themselves,

The Lord of all
snakes became an umbrella , the
waters of the river receded and stood there,

And they
reached the place of cattle
herds soon and his father brought a girl from there.